順じゅんに

じゅ

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に

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Meanings

Used when people or things follow a sequence: taking turns, doing something in a fixed order, or handling items sequentially.

名な前まえを順じゅんに呼よんでください。
Please call the names in order.
一人ひとりずつ順じゅんに部屋へやに入はいってください。
Please enter the room one by one, in turn.

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Usage patterns

〈物もの〉を順じゅんに並ならべるto arrange things in order
本ほんを大おおきさの順じゅんに並ならべた。
I arranged the books in order of size.
〈人ひと〉の名な前まえを順じゅんに呼よぶto call people's names in order
先せん生せいは出しゅっ席せき簿ぼの名な前まえを順じゅんに呼よんだ。
The teacher called out the names from the roll in order.
順じゅんに〈動どう詞し〉ていくto go through (something) one by one, in sequence
質しつ問もんに順じゅんに答こたえていった。
I answered the questions one by one, in order.

Kanji

順obey, order, turn

Related words

順じゅん番ばんに
順番に stresses following an assigned number or queue position, while 順に can refer to any sequential order, fixed or not.
次つぎ々つぎにN1
次々に describes things happening one after another in quick succession without a set order, whereas 順に implies following a deliberate sequence.
順じゅん々じゅんにN1
順に is a general term for doing things in order, while 順々に emphasizes a step-by-step, sequential progression through each item.
順じゅん次じ
順次 is a formal, often written adverb for proceeding in order, while 順に is a neutral, everyday way to say the same thing.

Opposites

逆ぎゃくに
順に means proceeding in the normal/set order, while 逆に means doing the same thing in reverse order.

Etymology

From 順 (order, sequence) + adverbial particle に. The kanji 順 is a phono-semantic compound: 川 (river) + 頁 (head), originally meaning 'to follow the flow'.